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During his first term in office, Putin opposed some of the Yeltsin-era business oligarchs, as well as his political opponents, resulting in the exile or imprisonment of such people as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky; other oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich and Arkady Rotenberg are friends and allies with Putin. [385]
During Putin's first two terms as president, he signed into law a series of liberal economic reforms, such as the flat income tax of 13 percent, reduced profits-tax and new land and civil codes. [31] Within this period, poverty in Russia reduced by more than half [32] and real GDP has grown rapidly. [33]
During his first term in office, he moved to curb the political ambitions of some of the Yeltsin-era oligarchs such as former Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, who had "helped Mr. Putin enter the family, and funded the party that formed Mr. Putin's parliamentary base", according to a BBC profile.
May 7, 2000 — After winning election with about 53% of the vote, Putin is inaugurated for his first four-year term. It is the first salvo in moves against prominent independent media that have ...
Incumbent prime minister and acting president Vladimir Putin, who had succeeded Boris Yeltsin after his resignation on 31 December 1999, sought a four-year term in his own right and won in the first round. As of 2024, this is the last Russian presidential election in which losers (Gennady Zyuganov and Aman Tuleyev) carried federal subjects. In ...
President Donald Trump, left, and and Russia President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. - Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images We simply do not know the details of ...
Vladimir Putin has formally begun his fifth term as Russia’s president in a carefully choreographed inauguration ceremony, in a country he has shaped in his image after first taking office ...
In his first term as president Putin had overseen an upswing in the economic fortunes of Russia, giving him a strong level of public approval. [4] Approximately three months in advance of the presidential election the Putin-backed United Russia party had swept the 2003 legislative election , while opposition parties experienced a strong decline ...